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The Observatory
The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-mails
December 16, 2009 12:52 PMThe publication of thousands of e-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit led to furious arguments about the science and politics of climate change. When the e-mails first leaked, however, reporters and bloggers on... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
Live Blogging “Starting Your Own Media Company” with Fred Wilson
December 1, 2009 03:58 PMCJR staffers will be live blogging this program at the Columbia Journalism School with influential venture capitalist, Fred Wilson. The event runs from 4-5:30 pm today. Read his blog, A VC: http://www.avc.com/ See the list of the companies he's <br... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The FTC to the Rescue!
December 1, 2009 01:36 PMThe Federal Trade Commission is holding a meeting today and tomorrow on the future of journalism. (No need to re-check the date on this post...this is indeed a "new" meeting on the topic). This one has a slightly more creative... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Steve Dahl Thinks You Aren’t Qualified to Comment on the News (and That He’s a Cockroach)
November 12, 2009 05:25 PMSteve Dahl, Chicago area radio personality and special contributor to the Chicago Tribune online, took to the Web to comment on all the useless commentary on the Web. When did public opinion merit the same amount... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Sad Stats from Seattle
November 12, 2009 02:15 PMRuth Teichroeb, former Post-Intelligencer writer and current blogger, catches up with her colleagues to see where they are now--7 months after the paper closed. The results are anything but reassuring, with less than 1/3 of the 71 respondents having found... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
Q & A: Financial Times CEO John Ridding
September 11, 2009 12:40 PMWhile newspapers fight to stay afloat, the Financial Times is doing just fine. In fact, the paper has almost doubled its subscription prices and has been charging for online content. John Ridding, the Financial Times’s CEO, recently talked to CJR’s... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Lessons from the Birmingham Eccentric
August 19, 2009 03:44 PMA little blitz of good press for local news hit the blogs not so long ago: the Birmingham Eccentric, a 131-year-old newspaper based in suburban Detroit, was living up to its name. Owned by Gannett since 2005, the paper... Continue reading
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Behind the News
We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick
July 27, 2009 11:44 AMIn the early 1990s, Jonathan Glick, a programmer and news enthusiast, approached The New York Times about taking the paper digital. That path took him to AOL, iVillage, and finally--when the paper was ready to have an independent Web presence--The... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The Huffington Post as Moral Compass?
July 17, 2009 12:17 PMThe Huffington Post is-thus far-a success story for the hybrid news model of voluntary contribution mixed with professional journalism. Well, a success in the financial sense, at least. So, it was probably inevitable that the volunteers eventually would start getting... Continue reading
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The Kicker
OMG, Teens Are SO Over Twitter!
July 13, 2009 03:00 PM“Teenagers do not use Twitter,” declares Matthew Robson, teenage market analyst and sudden media guru. Pause for collective gasp. Everyone in the news media is flocking to Twitter and other social media platforms in a panicked effort to retain their... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Another One Bites the Dust…or, Maybe Not
July 9, 2009 06:03 PMNo doubt, local papers are in trouble and some say big national papers will be the last standing. But there may just be something about the hometown rag that people are just not yet willing to let go of. ... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
- The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
The Observatory Science
- The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
- USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
- Medicare and the $500 billion bogeyman Will a half-truth still work for the GOP?
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- What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
- Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
- Why China ejected Melissa Chan
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